Monday Bill At Film Fest

November 18, 1985

Here is Monday`s schedule of the 21st Chicago International Film Festival. The offerings, when available for screening, have been reviewed by Tribune critics. Reviews of festival films will appear daily in Tempo and in the Friday section.

British Television Commercials, 6 p.m., McClurg Court. A retrospective of British commercials, including the work of Ridley Scott (``Alien`` and ``Blade Runner``); Alan Parker (``Fame`` and ``Birdy``); and Adrian Lyne

(``Flashdance``).

``Rage and Glory`` (Israel), 8 p.m. McClurg Court. The Stern Gang, perhaps the rashest of Palestine`s Jewish army-guerrilla outfits, did not sit still when one of its own was killed and tortured by the British. Eddy the Butcher in Jerusalem from Tel Aviv in 1942 as an instrument of revenge, hooking up with the local Stern bunch and going about his bloody, explosion-filled business. While Eddy (Juliano Mer, of matinee idol potential) is the center of the action, those around him offer a variety of subplots. Some of these are romatic and are often superfluous and generally distracting. Though the film would like to be asking (and answering) the question ``what price freedom?`` it is rather an unintentional indictment of the folly of blind vengance. The action is plentiful and rough, and the pace that of a TV cops and robbers show. Highly recommended.--Rick Kogan